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Two hundred photobooks across five decades—a raucous, one-of-a-kind tour through Parr's monumental history with the medium.Published with PhotoBook Museum, Cologne.As a photographer, publisher, writer, collector and image editor, with an eye trained on the absurdities of our global consumer and leisure culture, Martin Parr (1952–2025) has been bringing the photobook into the consciousness of contemporary photography since the turn of the millennium, publishing more than 200 books over the course of five decades. Grand Hotel Parr accompanies the first comprehensive photobook retrospective on Parr, organized by the PhotoBookMuseum and the Neues Museum in Cologne, Germany. In an elaborate staging inspired by the appearance of a hotel complex, the titular exhibition invites visitors to explore over 200 of the artist's photobooks. The tour through the various rooms of the hotel, such as the billiard room, the dining room and the fashion boutique, picks up on various themes from Parr's publications, creating a bizarre world that vacillates between ostentation and kitsch. Grand Hotel Parr showcases photographs from this one-of-a-kind exhibition as well as a bevy of essays by scholars and curators who explore Parr's storied history with the medium.

“Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, “Pedro Páramo”, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de sus personajes, que uno no sabe en qué momento son sueño, vida, fábula, verdad, pero a los que se les oye la voz al través de la ‘perspicacia despiadada y certera’ de tan sin duda extraordinario escritor.” Con estas palabras iniciaba Edmundo Valadés la primera reseña de Pedro Páramo, aparecida el 30 de marzo de 1955 y conservada por Rulfo entre sus papeles. Desde entonces, escritores como Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Gunter Grass, Susan Sontag y Mario Vargas Llosa, o el cineasta Werner Herzog, entre muchos más de cualquier lengua, coinciden en calificar esta novela como una de las obras maestras de la literatura de todos los tiempos.The work of Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) is doubtless the Mexican literary creation which has received the greatest acclaim both in Mexico and abroad. The novel “Pedro Páramo” underwent a long gestation. Rulfo mentioned it for the first time in a letter in 1947, and was able to work on it in 1953–1954 thanks to a grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Excerpts were published in three maga¬zines in 1954, before the novel appeared in book form in 1955. This masterpiece has numbered Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Susan Sontag among its admirers. “Pedro Páramo” evokes the very essence of Mexico through the most advanced literary forms and techniques of the twentieth century. Few works affect a Mexican reader as deeply as this novel, which also holds a place as a classic of world literature. It has been translated into almost fifty languages and new versions appear every year.

The third edition of Yamamoto’s much-loved photographic homage to the precarious, the delicate and the humble, complete with a sumptuously produced and redesigned coverJapanese photographer Masao Yamamoto trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him—the ability of the image to evoke memories.First released in 2015 with a second edition in 2021 and long since out of print, Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto himself, this volume includes images from each of the photographer's major projects—Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa and Shizuka—as well as installation shots of some of Yamamoto's original photographic installations. In the words of Yamamoto himself: ""I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I see them in print, a new story begins."" Now in its third edition, the book features a newly designed linen hardback cover with embossing and a tipped-on image.Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) lives and works in Japan. He has published numerous books, including two previous editions of Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015 and 2021) and Tori (Radius Books, 2016). His work is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, New York, and others.

Monasterio’s speculative photo series imagines the Mexico City that might have emerged without colonizationPablo Ortiz Monasterio (born 1952) offers a photographic perspective of Mexico City that captures its pre-Hispanic and colonial past through its surviving archaeological and architectural remnants. Tenochtitlan, once a metropolis of a different kind, now stands as a modern city, layered over the remains of an ancient civilization.

Vicuña applies her poetic sensibilities to her hand-tinted photographs of Santiago street life under the Chilean dictatorshipPublished with Toluca and Fundacion Lariviere.Roaming the streets of 1970s Santiago with a Russian camera in hand, poet-turned-photographer Leonora Vicuña (born 1952) captured its denizens in bars, cinemas and dance halls, hand-coloring and manipulating them to create a dreamlike, imaginary world removed from an austere reality.

"Pedro Páramo is one of the best novels of Spanish-language literature, and even of literature." —Jorge Luis BorgesPublished with Fundación Juan Rulfo.Juan Preciado makes a promise to his dying mother that he will travel to the town of Comala in search of his father, the titular character. Instead, Juan encounters a ghost town that relays to him the fragmented history of his father's cruel and violent life, and how he led Comala to ruin. Though met with an unwelcome critical reception in the years after its publication, Pedro Páramo has ascended into the canon of Mexican literature and magical realism writ large, thanks in no small part to its star-studded list of devotees. Gabriel García Márquez called it "the most beautiful novel ever written in the Spanish language," while Susan Sontag proclaimed: "The goal of every writer's life is to produce one great book—that is, an enduring work—and that is what Rulfo achieved."Commemorating the 70th edition of its original publication, this Spanish-language edition of Pedro Páramo includes unmissable archival material, including more than 100 cover designs from translated editions in over 30 languages. A charming black-and-white postcard of Rulfo placed between the pages provides a glimpse into the character and personality of the "father of magical realism."Juan Rulfo (1917–86) was born in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The corpus of his narrative work is his short story collection El llano en llamas, his novella El gallo de oro and the novel Pedro Páramo. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language. In 1983 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and in 1985 he was named Doctor honoris causa by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Snapshots, recollections and anecdotes from the foremost street photographer of 20th-century SpainThe monograph-cum-memoir of photographer Francesc Català-Roca (1922–98) stands as a testament to the analog era, and as a landmark for street photography in Spain during the Francoist era. Thirty years after its original publication, this new edition includes previously unpublished images alongside Català-Roca's entertaining and spontaneous anecdotes.

A tribute to a leading exponent of Kinetic art, in honor of the centenary of Soto's birthPublished with RGR Gallery .The Venezuelan painter and sculptor Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) is exalted as a pioneer of Kinetic and Op art. Faced with a world in constant movement, Soto responded in kind, employing his knowledge of geometry and negative space to create three-dimensional works that appear to vibrate or shift in space. He worked with unorthodox materials such as nylon, Perspex, steel and industrial paint to attain this destabilizing effect.Published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's birth, The Instability of the Real showcases arresting reproductions of Soto's works, immersing readers in his innovative experiments with movement, perception and space. The volume offers rare insights into his creative processes, the cultural context of his time and his profound impact on the art world, featuring a series of scholarly essays as well as a suite of five interviews with the artist, marking each decade from 1960 to 2000.

Eurocentric geometric abstraction meets traditional Indigenous aesthetic in this bold comparison of visual structurePublished with Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey and Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection .A radical attempt to compare two incommensurable aesthetic forms, Convergences Divergences pairs Western geometric abstractions with the traditional crafts of the Ye'kwana communities, located in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.

Eggshells, shoe soles, feathers and other discarded or obsolete objects form de la Mora's minimal yet technically complex oeuvrePublished with Museo Jumex and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey.Tessellating human hair, eggshell fragments, butterfly wings and shards of obsidian, Gabriel de la Mora (born 1968) creates intricate and mosaic-like compositions reflecting on aspects of eroticism, death and transformation. La Petite Mort features more than 80 works, illustrated with copious detail images.

An intimate reflection on loss, mourning and memory, made manifest through Manenti's spectral black-and-white photographyUpon receiving a large-format camera in 2012, the American photographer Ruth Lauer Manenti (born 1968) at last accessed a poetic sensibility she had first sought within drawing and painting. Her spectral photographs evoke the ephemeral motion of life and the vertiginous memories it impresses. In her new series, 4 Sides of The Table, made from 2022 to 2024, Manenti continues her meditation upon time's passage. The inciting image for this series emerged from an intimate, sorrowful scene: her mother's best friend, June, reading poetry as Manenti's mother lay dying in bed. In the wake of loss, Manenti found within June a maternal replacement. She began photographing June in segmented parts from various angles: hands, legs, front, back, partial views. When June's own daughter unexpectedly died, Manenti, too, became a replacement. Together, Manenti and June document the poignant work of mourning—the effort to preserve the unseen through new material forms.

Through patience and consistency, Salvans turns banal encounters in a supermarket lot into a visual symphony of life on the urban peripheryTxema Salvans (born 1971) has spent every sunny Sunday for the past 10 years on the roof of his van, photographing people who gather in a supermarket parking lot on the outskirts of Barcelona. This unlikely leisure ground, both empty and absurd, hosts practical routines, quiet breaks and even silent quests to suspend time.

“A visual symphony of drawing and painting, delving deeply into the many shades of femininity, sexuality and maternity.” —Erica Silverman, WhitewallPublished with Galería RGR.Mexican artist Magali Lara’s (born 1956) paintings, drawings and collages tinker with the boundaries between image and text, operating in the liminal space between figuration and abstraction. This publication invites a renewed reading of her oeuvre through the sphere of female intimacy.

A nearly overwhelming mountain of earth, clay and straw, Morelos’ installation is a multisensory encounter evoking a transcendent, embryonic statePublished with MUAC.Traveling from the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City to London’s Barbican Centre, El espacio vientre (The Womb Space) by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos (born 1967) is a monumental earthwork designed to be explored, dissolving lines between subject and object.

With a sober, human-centered gaze, Samsó’s vision of Barcelona invites readers to rediscover the city from its marginsIn his black-and-white photographs, Leopoldo Samsó (born 1946) presents a Barcelona far removed from clichéd postcard imagery. The city is shown as a lived space, shaped by minimal encounters and a quiet coexistence between people and architecture.

Haunted by beauty: a photographic meditation on the phenomenon of cosmetic surgery Published with Ediciones Posibles/Phree/PSV.Chinese photographer Yufan Lu (born 1991) investigates the prevalence of and motivations behind cosmetic surgery through a series of photocollages of convalescing patients. Lu describes her work as “death masks,” halting images stuck between hope and insecurity, determination and sacrifice.

Discover the intellectual and emotional influences behind Barragán’s architectural vision through an unprecedented peek at his personal book collectionPublished with Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán/Casa Luis Barragán.This book offers an intimate exploration of the creative universe of Luis Barragán through the lens of his personal library, housed in his home-studio in Mexico City, now the Casa Luis Barragán Museum, considered to be one of his most important buildings. More than a survey of an architect’s work, this volume reveals the inner life of Mexico’s most influential architect and the 1980 Pritzker Prize laureate by tracing the books, authors and ideas that shaped his vision. Barragán was an avid reader who understood books not only as sources of knowledge but as emotional bridges to friends, collaborators and kindred spirits. His library emerges here as a living archive—one that reflects his deep engagement with art, spirituality, landscape and modernity. Moving through this space is to enter a world governed by silence, solitude and serenity: essential values that permeate both his architecture and his way of life. The publication is enriched by a visual essay by acclaimed photographer David Jiménez, whose images capture the subtle interplay of light and shadow, intimacy and stillness, revealing the quiet beauty of the spaces where Barragán fused traditional Mexican architecture with international modernism.Luis Barragán (1902–88) was born in Guadalajara and lived and worked primarily in Mexico City, where he also died. An architect and engineer, Barragán is regarded as the most prominent figure in modern Mexican architecture. His architectural approach embraces the principles of Modernism while remaining deeply rooted in Mexican tradition.

A partir de la aparición de “Pedro Páramo”, Rulfo escribe su segunda novela, “El gallo de oro”. Ambientada en el mundo de las peleas de gallos y concebida como proyecto cinematográfico, probablemente se trate de la obra menos conocida del autor mexicano. No obstante ese desconocimiento, la valoración literaria está al mismo nivel que “Pedro Páramo” y “Llano en Llamas”.From the appearance of "Pedro Páramo", Rulfo writes his second novel, "El gallo de oro". Set in the world of cockfighting and conceived as a film project, it is probably the lesser-known work of the Mexican author. Despite this ignorance, the literary valuation is at the same level as "Pedro Páramo" and "Llano en Llamas". On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Juan Rulfo, RM publishes a special edition of "El gallo de oro" to which other stories that complement it are incorporated. The film script of "The secret formula", two early stories by Juan Rulfo: "Life is not very serious in its things" and "A piece of night", and also the one entitled "Castillo de Teayo". Also included is a letter from Rulfo to his wife, Clara Aparicio, in which Rulfo makes a harsh reflection on the nature of a heartless economic system. Finally, the reader will find nine texts that originally appeared in the collection of texts Los cuadernos de Juan Rulfo, an edition that is out of print.

Eamonn Doyle explores recent bodies of work by the Irish photographer (Dublin, 1969). Living in the center of the capital, Doyle photographs his surroundings from unexpected angles, revealing an original vision of the city and its inhabitants. His series i, ON, and End., otherwise known as the Dublin trilogy, with their strategiccropping and framing, convey moments of stillness and frenetic energy, solitude and community. Doyle's newest body of work, K, is his most mysterious and personal.These color photographs show a series of spectral figures of continually shifting form set against the dramatic backgrounds of Ireland's west coast and southwestern Spain.The series referencesthe Irish tradition of keening, a vocal lamentation for the dead, and wasborn in part from the premature losses of the artist's brother and mother. This catalogue accompanies the eponymous exhibition, curated by Niall Sweeney, held at the Fundación MAPFRE's Sala Bárbara de Braganza. It includes texts by Sweeney, Bob Quinn, David Donohoe, and Lisa Godson.

Parting from old photographs, collected with the care given by an ethnographer, Johanna Calle makes what she calls “photographic drawings”.To the tiny, fast gesture that triggered the shot, she adds her own: little by little she erases the elements present in the original image in order to gently raise the signs of an underground story: a landscape allows a musical score to arise, a face gives place to a polyhedron, a series of aerial photographs show how the silhouette of the trees of the primary forest ascends.

This volume gathers a surprising and engaging sampling of more than five hundred pieces of printed matter: material that circulated between the 1910s and the 1960s, with prints run of anywhere from a thousand to tens of thousands of copies. These ephemeral, utilitarian publications flooded streets, newspaper stands, bookshops, and homes, in the common aim of disseminating an idealized image of what is considered typically Mexican.Drawn from private collections and the holdings of museums, with no claim to completeness, the material in Mexico: The Land of Charm ranges in size from stamps to posters, and includes supports such as books, illustrated magazines, photography magazines, songbooks and musical scores, almanacs and calendars, tourist guides and maps. The result is impressive, in terms of both individual examples and the collection as a whole: these images are now a part of Mexican history.

El universo Frida Kahlo, coeditado por Editorial RM y el Museo Frida Kahlo, permite refrescar y actualizar la rica diversidad de temas, ideas, conceptos y emociones generados entorno a dos figuras icónicas y fundamentales en el México moderno: Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera. Esta edición recoge un abanico de ensayos escritos por especialistas en los diversos campos que envuelven a la figura de Frida Kahlo. Aproximaciones, al fin, a las condiciones materiales que marcaban su día a día y sus creaciones. Además, las casi trescientas imágenes de los archivos del Museo Frida Kahlo incluidas en este volumen permiten entrever el armario de Frida, la Casa Azul y su conexión con la fotografía. Este volumen nos da la bienvenida al universo de Frida Kahlo a través de la exploración del legado de esta figura indispensable de la cultura y arte del siglo XX.Frida Kahlo: Her Universe, published under a joint imprint by Editorial RM and Museo Frida Kahlo, allows us to refresh and bring up to date the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts, and emotions generated around two fundamental and iconic figures in modern Mexico: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. This edition gathers a range of essays by specialists on the various subjects that surround the figure of Frida Kahlo. Approximations to the material circumstances that surrounded her day to day and her creations. In addition, almost three hundred images from the archives of Museo Frida Kahlo offer readers a glimpse of Frida’s wardrobe, the collections of popular and preHispanic she assembled alongside Diego Rivera, the Blue House, her connection with photography, and other matters. This volume welcomes us into Frida Kahlo’s universe, exploring the legacy of an indispensable figure.in the world of twentieth-century art and culture.

El universo Frida Kahlo, published under a joint imprint by Editorial RM and the Museo Frida Kahlo, allows us to refresh and bring up to date the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts, and emotions generated around two fundamental and iconic figures in modern Mexico: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.Based on the 2013 edition, sponsored by Bank of America and produced in collaboration with the magazine Vogue México y Latino américa, this new edition gathers a range of essays by specialists on the various subjects it addresses. In addition, more than three hundred images from the archives of the Museo Frida Kahlo offer readers a glimpse of Frida’s wardrobe, the collections of popular and pre-Hispanic she assembled alongside Diego Rivera, the Blue House, her connection with photography, and other matters. This volume welcomes us into Frida Kahlo’s universe, exploring the legacy of an indispensable figure in the world of twentieth-century art and culture.

Six decades of cityscapes and depictions of social transformation across Latin AmericaPublished with Fundación Mapfre.Born in Gorizia, Italy in 1934 and nationalized as Venezuelan in 1954, photographer Paolo Gasparini is a leading figure in modern Latin American photography, known for his unflinching portrayal of the cultural tensions and profound internal contradictions of the American continent. Gasparini has travelled extensively throughout Latin America, from Cuba to Venezuela, where he eventually settled, and beyond, capturing the diversity and visual culture of the region he came to call home.This publication, accompanying the eponymous exhibition, surveys six decades of his photographic career wherein an itinerary through the ever-changing landscapes of cities such as Caracas, La Habana, Sao Paulo or Mexico seems to echo that of Munich, Paris, Madrid or London. The catalog features essays by María Wills, curator of the exhibition, Horacio Fernández, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Juan Villoro, as well as a concise biography of Gasparini by Sagrario Berti.

Chambi’s chronicles of Andean life and Inca ruins highlight Peru’s emerging Indigenous discourseOf Indigenous origin, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi (1891–1973) dedicated a large part of his life to photographing the Peruvian Andes, reclaiming the pre-Hispanic past through images of Inca ruins and portraits of life in Andean communities in the early 20th century. Chambi’s work brings a new perspective to photography of the time, highlighting the emerging Indigenous discourse that was starting to gain force in South America. While he was not the first to photograph Machu Picchu, Chambi was among the first Peruvian chroniclers of the Inca citadel. Drawing on Machu Picchu’s geometric forms, Chambi’s work entered a new phase in which shape, space and texture build toward more complex compositions and starker contrasts, making him an emblem of contemporary documentary photography in Peru and Latin America. This gorgeous clothbound volume compiles 170 of Chambi’s black-and-white images.